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| Original Title: | The White Album |
| ISBN: | 0374522219 (ISBN13: 9780374522216) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for General Nonfiction (1979), National Book Award Finalist for General Nonfiction (Paperback) (1981) |
Joan Didion
Paperback | Pages: 222 pages Rating: 4.16 | 15449 Users | 1107 Reviews
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First published in 1979, "The White Album "is a journalistic mosaic" "of American life in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. It includes, among other bizarre artifacts and personalities, reportage on the dark journeys and impulses of the Manson family, a visit to a Black Panther Party press conference, the story of John Paul Getty's museum, a meditation on the romance of water in an arid landscape, and reflections on the swirl and confusion that marked this era. With commanding sureness of mood and language, Didion exposes the realities and dreams of an age of self-discovery whose spiritual center was California. Table of Contents I. THE WHITE ALBUM "The White Album" II. CALIFORNIA REPUBLIC "James Pike, American" "Holy Water" "Many Mansions" "The Getty" "Bureaucrats" "Good Citizens" "Notes Toward a Dreampolitik" III. WOMEN "The Women's Movement" "Doris Lessing" "Georgia O'Keeffe" IV. SOJOURNS "In the Islands" "In Hollywood" "In Bed" "On the Road" "On the Mall" "In Bogota" "At the Dam" V. ON THE MORNING AFTER THE SIXTIES "On the Morning After the Sixties" "Quiet Days in Malibu"
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| Title | : | The White Album |
| Author | : | Joan Didion |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 222 pages |
| Published | : | October 1st 1990 by Farrar Straus Giroux (first published 1979) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Writing. Essays. Autobiography. Memoir. History. Journalism. Classics. Biography |
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Ratings: 4.16 From 15449 Users | 1107 ReviewsPiece Regarding Books The White Album
I enjoyed this dystopian look at a far future California under attack:the rescue-boat operation at Paradise Cove, the beach operations at Leo Carrillo, Nicholas, Point Dume, Corral, Malibu Surfrider, Malibu Lagoon, Las Tunas, Topanga North and Topanga South. Those happen to be the names of some Malibu public beaches but in the Zuma lookout that day the names took on the sound of battle stations during a doubtful cease-fire. All quiet at Leo. Situation normal at Surfrider.And its terribleDear Shevaun, You left a self-addressed envelope, the size of a note card, in the Duluth Public Librarys copy of The White Album, a collection of essays by Joan Didion. Your name as both the sender and receiver. Both address labels indicate an association with the University of Florida. One is decorated with a UF, the other a cartoonish profile of a cartoon gator, its snout hanging out of a decorative oval. Neither label is very artistic minded, not the finest work of a graphic designer. I doubt
4.5 Everybody likes Didion. All intelligent females I know like her. All intelligent males I know would most likely like her, if they could be bothered to read more female authors. Or maybe like is the wrong word, as its a word that does not suit Didion at all. Anyway, I fully expected The White Album to be sharp and well observed and elegantly written. And it was. What I did not expect - and what endeared her to me as soon as I realised what was going on - is that Didion is an obsessive nerd.
This undersung little book rates so highly with me that it very nearly earns my vote for the best writing by any modern-day American woman author. Period. [I would make it my #1 choice, but that honor goes to horror-authoress Shirley Jackson.] If we focus only on 20c. American nonfiction ; then it is certainly my #1 favorite title--beating out all works by all other females, and also all males (David McCullough, Norman Mailer, Hunter Thompson, Tom Wolfe, Gore Vidal, etc) as well. Did you hear
I've always thought that I was somehow naïve to some sort of greater truth about reality, or at least the United States, or at least California, because I had never read anything by Joan Didion. Friends and acquaintances and strangers spoke of her with a sort of ineloquent awe as if their own descriptions could never match her lucid prose or mental acuity.Now that I have actually read her own words I want to know, what is all the fuss about? I find Barbara Grizzutti Harrison's 1980 essay much
..........."Ancient marbles were not always attractively faded and worn. Ancient marbles once looked as they do here: as if dreamed by a mafia don." 76
"We tell ourselves stories in order to live" is the well-known first line of this collection, and of the title essay, and it has probably played a role in my avoiding Joan Didion until now. I had always attributed it to a somewhat sentimental conception of writing and reading, but now I'm glad I gave her writing a chance, and glad I decided to reread the title essay. In one section, she imagines a woman standing on a ledge on the sixteenth floor of an apartment building; on my first reading, I
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